I've had over a hundred different experiences in my travels abroad that have forever changed me into the person I am today. They range from meeting women with eyes as green as emeralds who are playful, feminine and fun, to meeting men who are tanned as brown as tree bark from working long hours in the sun. As you can guess from reading my previous paragraph, I really love to meet and interact with new people of all shades and backgrounds. To me, skin color, hair color, or anything else outwardly doesn't matter. What matters most is the character of the person.
Some people (wrongly) say that if a person comes from a cold climate, like for instance Siberia in Russia, that they must be a cold person. I've found this to be nothing but a lie. I've met Russians, Scandanavians, and Canadians who are as warm as the sun with their personalities. Cold climate means one thing only, that it's cold in the region where the country is. A cold personality however comes from a person's outlook on life and how he treats others. Karma is real and it bites people all the time.
There are hundreds of stereotypes about every type of person, but one thing is for certain, they are not always true. Red heads are not always quick to temper, blondes are not always twits, albinos don't lack souls. You'll hear some of the weirdest things about people but take note that they are more than likely exaggerated. In the search to find out how different people act in different parts of the world, I have traveled to countries like Sweden, Denmark, Amsterdam, Poland, Romania, Bosnia, and I can say for certain there are similarities, and there are differences in cultures.
People from the Scandinavian countries for instance love to ride their bikes everywhere. It's better for the environment and for the individual's health. They love to drink huge amounts of coffee, and they commute more so by public transportation than by driving their own cars. Now, people in countries like Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria are a bit different. Like their Russian neighbors, they do tend to love their alcohol more than other countries. They even have their own specialty home-made wines and spirits that they get drunk off of.
As far as relationships go, Swedish people are more liberal, they have some of the highest divorce rates in the world, they see relationships as ending when both people no longer feel compatible with each other. In my opinion that's fine, they shouldn't be forced to be together if neither of them chooses to be. The Poles, Serbs, and Ukrainians however take a whole different approach to relationships an marriage.
For the citizens of East, and South East Europe, countries in the Balkans, relationships are very significant. When two people start to see each other it's for the establishment of a bond that will lead to a marriage that should last a life time. For them, their culture is to stick out and stick together no matter what problems arise. These causes these countries to have a much lower divorce rate than other countries which are close by.
Which way is better? That's a subjective question, the person who wants to have only one partner for live can choose a country like Poland, the person who wants to be with someone until they stop loving each other, can chose a country like Finland. No matter what the choice one takes, it's always best to find a partner who shares the same hobbies, goals, morals, and outlook on life and relationships. Find that right somebody will go along way to your happiness.
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